Improvement in horse-rakes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVIS B. VOODVVARD, OF ERCILDOUN, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-RAKES.

Specifica-tion forming part of Letters Patent No. 31.507, dated February 19, 1861.

To all lwhom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, DAvIs B. WOODWARD, ot' Ercildoun, in the county ot' Chester and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Itnprovenlentin HorseRakes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view; Fig. 2, a transverse section with a part of the frame cut away and carrying-wheels removed.

The apparatus I am about to describe is represented iu the accompanying drawings, as applied to a horse-rake, A being a frame that is hung on the axle-tree in such a manner that a rocking niotion can be imparted to it by the ratchet-wheels A2 Aand slide-bar B connected with the cam-wheels D D bythe curved rods cc in Fig. 2, operated by the lever to which is attached the rope J. The lever is fastened to the bar 0, which is held in its place by the hinge-t'asteningsfjl which are firmly attached to the axle-treeot' the rake, the teeth tai-i fixed in the frame in such a manner as to have no motion independent of the frame A. .i

h are the shafts by which the horse or other animal is attached to the rake.

When the rake is in motion the slide-bar B, which moves in an oblong slot in the front part of the frame A', is thrown forward until it is necessary to discharge the accumulated hay, .when a person Walking-behind can operate the lever by the rope J, when the slide-bar B is drawn back and made to act as pawls on the ratchet-wheels A2 A2, `by which means the frontot' therocking frame A will be sufficiently depressed to elevate the rake-tooth t' it' i, when the hay will be discharged.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Ihe rocking frame A', having the teeth 'it' it' applied to it in the manner described, in combination with the rock-shaft O, cam-wheels D D, bar B, and ratchet-wheels A2 A2, these several parts being` constructed and arranged forjoint operation in the manner and for the purpose specited.

1n testimony whereof' I have hereunto subscribed my name.

DAVIS B. WOODWARD.

Witnesses H. G. THOMAS, J. C. KEEGH. 

